Just to say that with a bit of work off-list, this issue was nailed for me by
Mike Bonner (and thanks also to others who give info and suggestions).
Basically in Windows XP Home (and I hope in Windows 7 etc), tskill will kill a
task, and qprocess will give a list of running tasks (thanks, Phil D
Graham,
On XP try the 'qprocess' command. It should be available and provides similar
info.
put shell("qprocess")
Best -
Phil Davis
On 12/4/11 3:24 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
Thanks to all those who replied to my query - I appreciate both the speed and
the enthusiasm of the replies! So far I
If running from within livecode (do "" as) all you get back if there is an
execution error is execution error. Not sure why it doesn't pop up a real
error dialog when running from a file.
The kill command on windows is taskkill. Its used in the other script you
sent to me, and vbscript just shells
Graham,
What is the execution error exactly?! Please, always include the exact text of
an error, whenever you write the word 'error'.
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Thanks to all those who replied to my query - I appreciate both the speed and
the enthusiasm of the replies! So far I have not succeeded, but I am more than
ready to believe that it's finger-trouble on my part.
To take Mark Schonewille's suggestions first:
1. As I stated in my original post, I
wow. I can tell how long i've been away from a windows command line. Didn't
know about tasklist. Thanks!
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> I see. I have been using:
>
> function programs
> if the platform is "MacOS" then -- only OS
I see. I have been using:
function programs
if the platform is "MacOS" then -- only OSX!
put shell("ps -xcw") into myList
put offset("COMMAND",myList) into myColPos
repeat for each line myLine in myList
put char myColPos to -1 of myLine & cr after
Not sure the app in question is an lc app. Doesn't it only apply if thats
the case? If it is an lc app, then yeah relaunch is perfect.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with relaunch?
>
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> Mark Schone
What's wrong with relaunch?
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Op 4 dec. 2011 om 16:01 heeft Mike Bonner het volgende
geschreven:
>
Since you just want to kill the process, and not necessarily bring it to
the front or anything like that, I think this is great advice. Just kill it
through shell, shouldn't matter if its actually running or not.
However, on the vbscript side I found a MUCH easier way to see if the
process is runn
Hi Graham,
Looks like you need to read about the relaunch message in the docs.
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Hi Graham,
2011/12/4 Graham Samuel
>
> Last May I got lots of good advice from this list (specially from Mike
> Bonner) about how to deal with this problem, and it came down to running a
> little VB script that ran through the open processes on the machine and
> killed any duplicate of the progr
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